It's going to be spring before I get to wiring, probably in may. I haven't soldered anything since 1990. I've been trying to clean the basement and find my books from the electronics program I took back then. I have an engineering friend as well if I hit a wall. We can post here or exchange PMs as needed if you like.
It looks like this thing is going to need some juice to run if we're going to light this model well. It's going to need a 12 volt power supply for starters. Which leg is the anode and which is the cathode on an LED is important or you'll fry it if it's hooked up wrong.
I just ordered some wide angled LEDs (120 degrees) off ebay, a bunch in white for general lighting, just a few in blue for the deflector dish and impulse crystal and then the same in red for the impulse engine.
I picked up a few 555 & 556 timers on ebay as well. The 555s I want to use on the old TOS ships for nav lights. The tmp ships need 2 555s or a 556 which is a dual timer, to run both nav and strobes. I don't live in a big city so ebay works rather well for me.